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Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
I'm wondering whether this activity was criminal (would it be criminal elsewhere? does Congress exempt itself and its staffers from the laws in question?). Anyone know?
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No exemption, but this makes me wonder:
"There appears to have been no hacking, no stealing, and no violation of any Senate rule," Miranda said. "Stealing assumes a property right and there is no property right to a government document. . . . These documents are not covered under the Senate disclosure rule because they are not official business and, to the extent they were disclosed, they were disclosed inadvertently by negligent [Democratic] staff."
These sound, not like pure government "official" business, but party business. Should government computer systems be used for purely party business? I know you can't use government computers for fundraising or campaigning purposes, but can you use them as a tool of a party plotting party strategy?
(This is getting no play here at all, but we in the MW lag a few days in hearing Hill news. After the initial news about the memo contexnts, and a fwe lines about "scandal", it disappeared.)
